Jan 12, 2010

LeMaster Daniels

LeMaster Daniels announced Don DeSantis, CPA, has been elected a principal of the leadership group. DeSantis joined the firm as a senior manager in 2007 with the addition of the Bellevue office. He has 30 years of experience in the accounting and business consulting field.

Salish Lodge & Spa

Salish Lodge & Spa made three executive appointments. Kevin Shoemaker is director of food and beverage, Brad Komen is executive chef and Matthew Mina is sous chef. Shoemaker was director of food and beverage at Hotel 1000 in Seattle. Komen has 20 years experience in the restaurant industry and worked at Restaurants Unlimited at Palomino, Cutters Bayhouse and Triples. Mina was executive chef at The Sorrento Hotel, where he was selected from a pool of culinary professionals in an Iron Chef-style competition.

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson hired A. Kyle Johnson as of counsel. Johnson has 43 years of experience practicing law in Washington state and was previously a partner with the firm, which was then Lasher & Johnson, from 1976 to 1989. Johnson recently founded The Johnson Law Group and has worked at Stanislaw Ashbaugh and Chism Jacobson & Johnson.

Grainger

Grainger, a local distributor of facilities maintenance supplies, awarded $2,000 Tools for Tomorrow scholarships to South Seattle Community College students Robert Wilson and Walter Lawrence. Wilson is a Seattle resident studying welding and fabrication technology. Lawrence, also from Seattle, is in the college's automotive technology program. The two also will receive a Westward tool package when they graduate.

CTS Cement

Cypress, Calif.-based CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp. named Walter (Jerry) Hoyle president. Hoyle previously was executive vice president. He has more than 30 years of industry experience and is a member of the American Management Association. He replaced Bill McCormick, who is remaining with CTS as a senior executive vice president. CTS makes specialty fast-setting hydraulic cement and shrinkage-compensating cement. Its products are carried locally by Glacier Northwest, Dunn Lumber, McLendon Hardware and others.

Jan 08, 2010

KeyBank

KeyBank hired Floyd Sandoval as a financial advisor at its Redmond branch at 16401 Redmond Way. Sandoval has 10 years of experience in financial services. He previously worked at Chase Investments Services as a senior financial consultant.

City Bank

Conrad Hanson, chairman, president and CEO of City Bank in Lynnwood, is retiring as president and CEO. He will continue as chairman of the board of directors until the annual shareholders' meeting in May. City Bank's board of directors elected Martin Heimbigner, lead independent director, to replace Hanson as president and CEO. The board also elected James Carroll, the bank's executive vice president and a member of the board of directors, to serve as chief credit officer.

KCTS 9

KCTS 9 has hired three new members to its development team: Elizabeth Perera and Asa Tate will serve as major gifts officers while Maria Meyer will be development assistant. Perera has worked at Microsoft, Seattle Symphony and Bellevue College. Tate has 13 years of fundraising experience and worked at the Women's Funding Alliance and the Technology Access Foundation. Meyer recently spent nine years at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum.